Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members of his political cell, and begins to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned. At the same time, his comrades pressure him to make a sacrifice for their cause, and his beloved wife experiences personal problems and economic hardships.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat capta...

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selb...

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated ...